S9 speed boards
seems S9 have got there shit together and are bring out some stiff racing boards that you wont find at you local surf shop, well thats bullshit, every kid under the sun will have a new model soon, im guessing they dont come as completes and have no idea of prices. any way one of the tightest crews around now with matching boards , leathers and steeze.
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Permalink Reply by Jezza on
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In all fairnnes they didn't 'start the scene', they cashed in on the idea that longboarding is like surfing on land, and in doing so I mean they really CASHED IN.They sell those flat, flexy pintails in surf shops for over $300, some pushing 400. That is, in some part, the surf shop, but Billabong is flexing its brand muscle on those surf shops so that in some cases they only sell Billabong boards. Yes they get people into longboarding, but thats just what they want, no-one who already longboards is going to buy one of those surfy brah boards, unless they want it as a cruiser etc.
the 'longbaorders' S9 I have no problem with, to me they seem an almost separate entity from Billabong, and are making some nice boards
Jack Nolan said:fair enough, but they did start up the scene, and i stand by my point about getting people in to longboarding
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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Jacko on -
theres a lot of people here who got no idea how much they are crapping on...
S9 got new boards coming, epic as fuck. go get yourself a new rig and be stoked. dont like it then go away
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Permalink Reply by Robbo on
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Sector9 has the cheapest decent quality boards available, given that the race scene is tiny compared with the general longboard cruiser scene I think they have done a hell of a lot for getting non-skaters and people off double kicks and onto longboards. Remember that Sector 9 was not always owned by Billabong, they were the first company doing anything mainstream and mass market for longboarding and probably deserve to cash in.
Its retailers like skateboard express and rebel sport that fuck over brands by putting out cheap crap along with Z-flex that also puts out skateboard express style junk completes. Now we have a generation that thinks that $200-$330 for a longboard complete of good quality is a ripoff. These are the same people that would buy overseas to save $40 rather than support any local shops.
As far as selling these things in surf shops, the company that owns Sector9 also owns most of the surf shops they are sold in so what else would you expect. They are surf shops, they don't claim to be skate shops and are not likely to become skate shops so they are not going to stock gear for the serious downhiller or any real range of skate brands. The fact they are just selling the brand they own would seem a normal business decision.
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I've got nothing against the boards, I could see myself buying one, its the bussiness practice that gets to me. I used to work in a surf shop (not a chain, just a small operator, sold clothes mainly), and was openly told that the only boards they were allowed stock were S9 under their stock arrangement. They still did (I think they had Globe or something) but its the idea that Billabong, arguably the strongest brand of apparel could bully a small shop into selling their Boards solely, in return for stocking their clothes. I think Dave K's had a similar experience....
BTW the shop wasn't owned by Billabong, it was owned by the manager
The Ervan model looks nice
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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Jacko on -
surf shop bro.... its not a skate shop.
skate shops wouldnt do that, i think people should be stoked that longboard and skateboards are even in shops
Jezza said:I've got nothing against the boards, I could see myself buying one, its the bussiness practice that gets to me. I used to work in a surf shop (not a chain, just a small operator, sold clothes mainly), and was openly told that the only boards they were allowed stock were S9 under their stock arrangement. They still did (I think they had Globe or something) but its the idea that Billabong, arguably the strongest brand of apparel could bully a small shop into selling their Boards solely, in return for stocking their clothes. I think Dave K's had a similar experience....
BTW the shop wasn't owned by Billabong, it was owned by the manager
The Ervan model looks nice
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well surf shops are now kinda clothes shops... haha
kids would come in with their parents looking for clothes and go "aww cool", and end up walking away with a $300 complete. So long as they've got their feet on a longboard they're stoked, and I guess in the long run it can only be a good thing
and I guess that means S9's got more money for R&D, so hopefully we'll see some more of these boards to come ;)
Jacko said:surf shop bro.... its not a skate shop.
skate shops wouldnt do that, i think people should be stoked that longboard and skateboards are even in shops
Jezza said:I've got nothing against the boards, I could see myself buying one, its the bussiness practice that gets to me. I used to work in a surf shop (not a chain, just a small operator, sold clothes mainly), and was openly told that the only boards they were allowed stock were S9 under their stock arrangement. They still did (I think they had Globe or something) but its the idea that Billabong, arguably the strongest brand of apparel could bully a small shop into selling their Boards solely, in return for stocking their clothes. I think Dave K's had a similar experience....
BTW the shop wasn't owned by Billabong, it was owned by the manager The Ervan model looks nice
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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Phil Bartlett on -
what is it with all the HATERS fullstop, fuck me we are all here to skate yeah. whilst im on the topic, sector9 organises fuckloads of local events in the states so people have no excuse.
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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by ben halls on -
oo the first one looks nice
really nice
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Permalink Reply by Alex King on
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its probably a good and a bad thing that billabong bought S9. bad thing is that now theres guys who cruise around giving comments like nice helmet faggot and stuff like that. good thing is billabong gave S9 the funds they needed for the development of their race boards and wheels. the way i see it is billabong is making the flexy cruisers and S9 making the race decks.
4th and bottom one look good enough for me
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Permalink Reply by craig bond on
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the problem to me with S9 is miseducation. i work in a surf shop, and frequently have people have surfy brah guys telling me they've been 80k on their flexy cruiser (they're lying), because they think S9 longboard=bomb hills. not so. i get guys telling me they straightline bomb hills on their ala moana with sidewinders on? hmmm. i've been at spots where i'm wearing helmet gloves n pads, n had surfy brahs rock up n skate their S9 no shoes, no safety, n standing right on the back trucks.hmmm.
as S9 and longboarding gets more popular, i can see a lot of the guys with no idea getting hurt.
i know a S9 rep who's brother nearly killed himself (head injuries, internal bleeding, lots'o' hospital) on his S9
i had a 13 yr old kid in the shop the other day who broke his collarbone, dislocated his shoulder and took a heap of skin off on his S9 mini cruiser trying to bomb a hill because thats what he thought S9's were for. we had a chat, and i explained to him otherwise.
i guess i see S9(billabong) promote longboarding to the mainstream, but not so much how to do it safely.
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Permalink Reply by Zane Julian on
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Agreed
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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Jacko on -
that story craig may all be well and true but you must understand its not up to billabong to 'promote safety'. remember it was not that long ago that faster more serious longboarding became really popular, before then all we really had was kids farting around on sector 9s. i can guarantee that most people on this site started that way. i started that way. when i first longboarded i had a sector, cruised around with no lid, no gloves, no safety, bombed big hills and wrecked myself big time, i did not know better, because there were no people what so ever around to show me what gloves were, what a helmet was, how to slide properly, all i had was my sector 9 i got from a surf shop. now 5 years later i ride a serious longboard AND a helmet for that sort of riding because i know its much more suited to that style. how do i know this? because the scene has grown so much that it allows the market to expand within our country and these sorts of boards become more readily available to the open market. its been only so recently that we see the big named quality longboards in local skate and surf shops, its was no that long ago the only place we could get them was online and thats if u knew where to look, not every surfy brah surfs the net all the time checking to see what cool skateboard toys he can find.
its also because of those groms and 'surfy brahs' that cruise around on their sectors bombing hills on 'retard boards' that has allowed the market to develop in such a way that has brought such big things as far as longboarding product goes in Australia. say if one in every 10 of those 'surfy brahs' that cruise on their retard board decided to check out something better and invested into a serious longboard, then eventually they would dive further into it and maybe stumble upon a website such as this and learn more about cool new boards and safety and all that, and hopefully they start to tell their mates and they all become more educated in such an epic lifestyle.
so before people start to rag on such a brand as Sector, saying they fuck the market or rag on the way they have advertised themselves as a board company or by even what sort of boards they sell, remember they were there since day 1, its where it all began for most of us, and frankly i rekon if sector werent around then we would not have what we got now. Its because of companies like sector that have allowed the evolution in the market of longboarding.
remember how young this sort of skateboarding is, and also remember its all skateboarding, there are all sorts of people riding all different ways, weather it be the way you want or not, either way theres folks out there turning wheels and thats all that matters
i see so many people here winging and complaining about 'whats good for the sport' or 'what people SHOULDNT do' when everyone should just go out and get stoked on riding their damn skateboard
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